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...Knock on Wood. Danny tries to give himself more room to whirl around in. Melvin Frank and Norman Panama wrote their script - and Kaye's talented wife Sylvia Fine contributed the specialty numbers - somewhat in the style of an aria with a few optional passages scattered along the way, at which points Danny could go into a comic Kayedenza if the inspiration came. And inspiration does come. One of the funniest parts of the picture is the scene in which Kaye. on the spur of the moment, becomes an automobile salesman sputtering trade talk ("overhead underslung oscillating compression decravinator...
...trouble finding enough time for her children and husband, Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., boss of the 16-newspaper and magazine empire. Last week the family won out. In her column, "Under My Hat," published in the Washington Times-Herald (syndicated to ten other papers as "Washington Whirl"), she wrote: "Ah Washington! After more than ten years of covering the Washington parade ... I shall soon say goodbye to a regular deadline . . . Mostly for two very good reasons−my two little sons [ages four and 16 months...
...year, Charlotte expects to have another operation, which he hopes will permit "a normal life as a woman," and to have a whirl at writing a book on the experience. Said Charlotte: "We are an army of people who live deeply depressed, under circumstances we cannot control. Now doctors have helped me, but my future seems darker than ever because it's now a question of a young girl's existence...
...school of its own and without a guiding hand, dissolved almost as if it had never been.* For a while Balanchine wandered, picking up odd jobs in London variety shows ("16 Delightful Balanchine Girls"), staging half a dozen ballets for the crack Danish Royal Ballet, having a whirl at running his own company (called Les Ballets 1933}. But nothing quite worked out as he wanted it to, and he turned his eyes westward again. "I really wanted to go to America," he says. "I'd seen the movies. So many beautiful girls...
...Sacramento bungalow. Forbes starts each day by feeding the birds from his kitchen window. Then he heads for the foundation office, or plans another whirl about the country to spread the foundation's gospel of opening wide the doors of nature to children ("Did you ever see an uninterested kid in a junior museum?"). At 40, Forbes is far from through. His present targets: museums in San Mateo, San Rafael, Fresno and Stockton. Calif., and a $500,000 permanent endowment for the foundation. "If I were three people." he says. "I couldn't get done what I want...